Could Have Been Quotes - Page 17

• We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant number of deaths, but nowhere near as high as it could have been.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Numbers, People, Saws

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• I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having.

  Samantha Bee

  Reading, Kids, Thinking

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• Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.

  Anne Carson

  Writing, Drawing, Scary

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• It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken with athletes who, for years afterward, have been tormented by the knowledge that, had they done something ever so slightly different, they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker.

  Chris Cleave

  Athlete, Years, Different

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• Because I was the first super-elite, the press caught on and started calling me a supermodel. So in that sense, I guess I'm the first. But, in my opinion, there were girls that could have been called supermodels before that, if the term was in existence.

  Carol Alt

  Girl, Calling, Firsts

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.

  Fran Drescher

  Hair, Stuck, Wells

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• My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Father, Writing, Immigration

  "I felt I had befouled myself" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.

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• When you get down to the nitty gritty, isn't it a pity that in this big city not one little bitty man will admit that he could have been a little wrong.

  Elvis Presley

  Reality, Men, Cities

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• Given the large size of the illegal harvest, ... I find it difficult to understand how this could have been a casual oversight.

  Peter DeFazio

  Size, Harvest, Illegal

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• Watercolour could have been used more by the modernists. It is so direct, and when the white paper convention is accepted, so powerful, even brutal, that it would seem an ideal medium.

  David Milne

  Powerful, White, Paper

  David P. Silcox, David Milne (1996). “Painting Place: The Life and Work of David B. Milne”, p.284, University of Toronto Press

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• With the benefit of hindsight, had more care been taken, maybe this could have been avoided

  Eason Jordan

  Taken, Benefits, Care

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• As to the kindness you mention, I wish I could have been of more service to you than I have been, but if I had, the only thanks that I should desire are that you would always be ready to serve any other person that may need your assistance, and so let good offices go around, for humankind are all of a family. As for my own part, when I am employed in serving others I do not look upon myself as conferring favors but paying debts.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Letting Go, Kindness, Office

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• Indeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function long enough to give an opportunity to discover where the failure occurred. Most early debacles were so benighted that rocket engineers could have been forgiven for daubing the blood of a virgin goat on the orifice of the firing chamber.

  Norman Mailer

  Opportunity, Simple, Blood

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• I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.

  Ken Livingstone

  Voice, Sound, Prime

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• AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.

  Larry Kramer

  Needs, Aids, Plague

  "AIDS is a plague allowed to happen" By Larry Kramer, www.cnn.com. January 14, 2011.

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• I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn't talk about himself very much.

  Bob Brown

  Kids, Thinking, Difficult

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.

  Anthony Braxton

  Discipline, World, Students

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• To this day I am not convinced of having brought together with me in Germany the technically best players that could have been. But I was firmly convinced I called the ones that could create a team, and they could play with one another to the best of their possibility. In this day and age you win if you become a team. It doesn't necessarily mean that you've got to have the best football players in the country. It's possible that the best, all together, don't become a team. It's like a mosaic, you have to put all the pieces together.

  Marcello Lippi

  Country, Football, Team

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• That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.

  Arthur Brisbane

  Education, Years, Four

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• And so matching by itself is incapable of creating an art of reckoning. Without our ability to arrange things in ordered succession little progress could have been made. Correspondence and succession, the two principles that permeate all mathematics - nay, all realms of exact thought - are woven into the very fabric of our number system.

  Tobias Dantzig

  Art, Numbers, Two

  Tobias Dantzig (1954). “Number, the Language of Science: A Critical Survey Written for the Cultured Non-mathematician”

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• Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.

  Aberjhani

  Opponents, Moments, Historic

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• My career could have been prolonged for longer

  Micky Quinn

  Careers, Has Beens

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• If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before. I mean, I produced a Frank Sinatra special - Elizabeth Taylor, with Michael Jackson, Gregory Peck, I won't even take a picture.

  David Gest

  Mean, Special, Wanted

  "Love on the rocks". Interview with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. February 6, 2004.

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• Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that's the one that is going to require the most from you.  Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?

  Caroline Myss

  Choices, Empowering, Scare

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• You cannot prove this in real time, but when economists 20 years from now write a book on the recovery, it may well be entitled, It could have been much better.

  Jamie Dimon

  Real, Book, Recovery

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